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BULLETIN 673, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
TUPELO. 
Tupelo statistics, as given in this bulletin, cover production of cot- 
ton gum (Nyssa aquatica), commercially called tupelo, and black gum, 
or pepperidge (Nyssa sylvatica). Prior to 1915 many of the mills 
reported their cut of black gum with red gum. 
The reported cut of tupelo in 1916 of 214,239,000 feet is 40 per 
cent more than the quantity reported produced the year before; the 
increase is correlative with the increase of 36.3 per cent in red gum 
as previously noted. 
A feature of the output for the year is the enlarged cut in Louisiana, 
which is 81 per cent in excess of the year before, and which advanced 
the State's production from 41 per cent to 53 per cent of the total for 
all States. Several other changes occurred in the relative rank of the 
larger producing States, Alabama assuming second from fourth place 
in 1915 and North Carolina dropping from second place into fourth. 
The computed total production was 275,000,000 feet; it was 
170,000,000 feet the preceding year. 
The average mill value of $13 per 1,000 feet was an increase of 
75 cents per 1,000 feet over the 1915 value. 
Table 24. — Reported production of tupelo lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 275,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Percent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet, 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States 
Louisiana 
Alabama 
Virginia 
North Carolina 
Mississippi 
South Carolina 
Missouri 
Tennessee 
Arkansas 
All other States (see summary, p. 38) 
Feet i. m. 
214,239,000 
100.0 
$13.00 
50 
43 
31 
38 
43 
17 
24 
68 
56 
248 
113, 115, 000 
22,416,000 
21, 235, 000 
8, 338, 000 
8,216,000 
7,363,000 
6, 329, 000 
6, 083, 000 
5,497,000 
15, 647, 000 
52.8 
-10.5 
9.9 
3.9 
3.8 
3.4 
3.0 
2.8 
2.6 
7.3 
13.56 
12.43 
12.41 
10.70 
12.67 
13.46 
11.65 
10.92 
12.06 
BASSWOOD. 
Basswood, sometimes called linden or linn (Tilia americana) is cut 
mostly in the Lake States, and white basswood (Tilia TieteropJiylla) 
and other species in the Appalachian Mountain region. 
The reported cut of 209,275,000 feet in 1916 is less than 1 per cent 
more than that scheduled for the previous year. The peak in bass- 
wood cut statistics was reached in 1909, and since that year the out- 
put has gradually diminished. 
Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia, and New York remain the 
leading States in production, each having a reported cut of approxi- 
mately the same quantity as in 1915. 
